The changing landscape of cancer in India

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Prof. PK Julka - Max Institute of Cancer Care, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, India

Prof P K Julka speaks to ecancer at the Choosing Wisely: Value added cancer care for India event in Delhi the changing landscape of Cancer in India.

He explains that in the 1980s there was no individualisation of treatment and that all advanced breast cancer patients were getting mastectomies done.

Since then, as Prof Julka explains, we have arrived at the era of personalised medicine, where each patient is treated differently.